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[Man of Paper]

I was on a server with a few people from this forum I used to frequent. They weren't very creative people, and built villages together but didn't do many megaprojects. There is a lot of text here, so apologies in advance.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

One of the other people I played with wasn't boring like the rest of them though, so we decided to have some fun when the majority of the server decided to build a bigger, better town elsewhere (they had me responsible for building the road between the two because of my ability to build roads I guess). The first town was still going to be used, but me and the other guy noticed we were the only ones staying in the old town, so decided to make it our own by planting as many plants, including trees as large as we could get them, in as many places as possible.

When people returned to go on the pilgrimage (will be explained in a bit), they came across a town that was now just trees. Trees everywhere. They didn't even bother to try to penetrate the thick hedgerows we'd created. Along with not being creative, they weren't too motivated if what they did didn't give them instant gratification most of the time. We wound up charging fees for guiding people through the maze we made through the leaves and trees if they wanted to get their items back in a quick manner, and most of them dropped gold and diamonds for it. It's fun making people pay for stuff they already own, right EA's on-disc DLC?

Every now and then someone would try to penetrate the trees, but the maze encompassed an area much larger than the town (we took down the wall around the town to take away any sense of direction), and the players would try to dig through but get lost so easily. I once found a tunnel straight through the trees, barely missing a house by a couple blocks.


Now for the other thing I did on this server, which took a huge amount of time and resources, and was absolutely a megaproject by any definition. I decided it'd be a good idea to build shrines for a pilgrimage that'd span a huge distance. Each shrine would represent one of the seven virtues and vices.

First I built a road of plank blocks from the forest village to the first shrine a good 5 or so minute walk away. Unlit by me, by the way, so the pilgrims would have a bit of an adventure on their hands (though at one point someone or some people decided to fix that, which was awesome in my opinion, because remember, these people seemed to hate doing anything interesting).

The first shrine, atop a massive pyramid of wood, was the Shrine of Charity. I put a couple chests near the shrine and filled them with food asking that anything taken be replaced by a donation. Anything would do. What I didn't let anyone know was that I built my home within and under the hollowed-out pyramid when I discovered a chasm rich in all sorts of ore directly beneath it (my mission seemed to be blessed by Armok). The shrine at the top was a 5x5x5 with the external middle rows of blocks removed. If you dug out the core blocks it revealed an entrance to my home, requiring you to take a ladder about a dozen blocks down. However the ladder ended a few blocks above the floor, and I placed a convenient hole right below it that dropped straight into the chasm.

To get to the Shrine of Courage I built a path of cobblestone from the rear of the pyramid that went right through a hill. I threw in a couple turns to keep things interesting (and allow for mob ambushes). The shrine, a 3x3x1 cobblestone square with two cobblestones coming up off the middle block and topped with a redstone torch, was built in a room near the last bend, which gave you a nice view of the light at the end of the tunnel once you left the shrine room. The path came out of the hill, coincidentally, between the mansions two players had built.

SIDE STORY: One of the players in the mansions decided my path was dropping property values in the development or something, and proceeded to fill in a huge portion of the tunnel with dirt. Upon walking my path (I did this frequently to get rid of snow, fix creeper blasts, and get items from the recently deceased, hehehe) I found this dirt in my way, with a sign saying I'd have to find somewhere else to build my tunnel in a not so polite manner (this girl was known as the queen bitch of the forum). That was not an option for me, as I had already built and connected most of the overworld shrines (hint hint). So being the gentleman I am, I cleared out all the dirt, leveled a nearby hill, and completely encased her mansion in dirt inside and out. Near her door I placed a sign saying "I think you misplaced this." It was still buried up until the server died. END SIDE STORY

Anyway, the Shrine of Patience took a good ten minutes to get to if you ran down the wood and brick road. The shrine was out in the open, and had a 3x3x1 square of brick supported by 4-block tall pillars of bricks at the corners. It also marked the border between the temperate and snowy biomes. There were no intentional dangers here, as the time it took to get there was the intended deterrent.

The Shrine of Kindness, composed of a 3x3x4 bit of glass shaped similarly to the first shrine, was suspended above a pit that dropped past line of sight. I placed a bit of water at the bottom and built a path that brought you back to a hill overlooking the Shrine of Patience.

The Shrine of Humility is by far my favorite out of all of them. The path leading from the Shrine of Kindness went through the snowy fields as it slowly descended to sea level. But that's when I saw it: suspended in the air was a massive island in the sky, shaped a lot like the Caldari Griffin of EVE, but with a flattened top. The bottom point of the island was a good dozen blocks off the ground. I decided I'd make a Stairway to Heaven and created what started off as a 3-block wide stairway of glass with a railing of glass three blocks tall, but once I got to the point where falling meant instant death, the left and right side of the steps disappeared, though the railings stayed in place so the pilgrims would have to pay close attention to the steps. The shrine, also built of glass, was shaped like an inverted "U" and when stood under provided a beautiful view over the island and across the wilds.

The path off the skyland was, for all intents and purposes, Snake Way. The path wound back and forth and over itself (though I made sure there were no points where you could drop down onto a part of the path further along) and eventually ended in a massive tower leading back to the ground, right in the center of a crater amid a metric crapton of mountains. I went to work tunneling through the mountains, building bridges between them (with the obligatory fatal drop), and generally making a huge path out of it meant to totally disorient the pilgrim. The final bit of the tunnel followed the slope of the last mountain from the inside until it reached ground level, where it opened up to a bay where I planted all the seeds. At this point, if one didn't bring enough food, they'd be starving if they hadn't done so already (Though the other cool guy set up a shop selling watermelons right next to the path leading to the first shrine). So I set up a crafting table near the farms and housed it in an iron shed of sorts, which was the Shrine of Diligence.

The path then went to the end of the bay, where I made a bridge into the sea far enough where you couldn't see land, and built a ladder to the sea floor (I was above something of a high point, so it wasn't insanely deep). I dug a stairway to the bottom of the world and made the path level with the highest piece of bedrock and dug out of an 8x8x3 (I think 3) room. The bedrock was positioned perfectly enough that someone would be able to jump from one to the other and to the other end of the room if they chose the right blocks. Then I filled the space in between the bedrock with some magma. Once across, you'd have to go up a few steps where you'd enter a room that closely resembled an epically legendary dining hall in size (I had to build a ton of scaffolding to dig out the ceiling) with torches on the wall and a 3-wide path bordered by redstone and redstone torches leading right to the Shrine of Chastity, a single Diamond block in the middle of the room.

Past that, embedded into the wall, was the portal to the Nether, the next section of the pilgrimage.

The portal happened to open up at the edge of a massive drop into magma. If you turned around then there was the cobblestone path that you could follow through a trench (to avoid fireballs, and was often populated by the pigsmen) that followed the chasm and eventually turned into the netherrrack wall, going through it for a good couple minutes. I decided I'd make the tunnel descend to the magma, but when I dug down it came to my attention that a single layer of blocks stood between me and an impossible to survive drop (it was too far to survive, even if there wasn't a magma sea below it). So I decided to strategically dig out blocks, but I noticed that if you ran down the tunnel you'd see the hole easily and just avoid it. So using a mind-melting amount of scaffolding I added a few blocks below the ones that bordered the hole so that it appeared to be solid if you weren't paying close enough attention. Near the end of the path I said fuck it and just dug out all three floor tiles instead of the isolated ones that ran the whole way. At the end of that path was the Shrine of Wrath (which turned out to be more suitably named than I anticipated), a massive cross made of gold blocks.

The path continued with surprisingly little danger, save for the Ghasts, and eventually led to the Shrine of Greed. This one was a massive room dug out of the netherrack with a little platform extended over another pit of death I love so much. During construction of the room I measured out the furthest possible distance I'd be able to jump off of the platform and made the border there, lining it every few blocks with chests. Which would be empty if you managed to jump over and avoid falling to your death. And as you couldn't sprint to get back across, you'd have to take the fall.

Sadly, I didn't get to make the next shrine, as real life interrupted and the server was down soon afterwards, cutting down on the time I had for megaprojects. I was, however, able to run the population of the server through a teaser pilgrimage which resulted in a lot of butthurt and assmad.

You guys want to hear how everything worked out? I'd put it here, but if you read this far you might want to take a break or check out some other threads or something.

tl;dr I do a lot of stuff, want to hear how it killed people?

[Knight of Fools]

Good read so far.

Please send more.

[Slayerhero90]

More, please.

[Man of Paper]

Alrighty! Just a warning, it might be an hour or two before I'm able to post it, since it'll be a bit to write up and I have to leave for my place in 15 minutes, and the internet there isn't the most stable.

[Itnetlolor]

Those pilgrimages actually sound pretty awesome. I want to hear more.

[Mr Space Cat]

PTW for awesome.

[Man of Paper]

If I left the story there, would that count as Minecraft trolling?

But I won't because I'm a neat guy.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I had an even dozen people interested in what in the hell I was doing. With the guy who ran the server about to get banned from the forum (for being a dick to everyone but me for some reason), we knew he'd be taking the server down as well, so I decided to lead a premature pilgrimage, just so it'd be appreciated. So as cool guy and I are making sure everyone's gathering at the start of the trail we see a notice for one of the players dying (I don't remember if Minecraft is specific with deaths or was back then), followed immediately by "FUCK YOU KYLE!" (not shy about my name, by the way. If the internet wants to figure it out then I couldn't stop them anyway) It turned out he was curious about the inside of the pyramid and was actually smart enough to realize the shrine marked the entrance to my home. But he didn't realize the ladder stopped short, and wound up plummeting to his death deep within the chasm.

Shrines Visited: 0
Deaths: 1

So he got back with us. I had a few ground rules for the pilgrims as well:

• One set of armor of your choice
• No blocks of any kind
• Any weapons
• Any food you'd like to bring
• Don't bring what you can't replace
• You must touch the shrine to count as visiting it

So we set off (in the dark), most people in Iron Armor, two in Diamond, and myself the only one decked out in Gold (I wanted to stand out). Since the path was pretty direct, I took the rear and told the pilgrims to stick close and follow the path. We make our way to the first shrine (that I had to repair real quick) without much incident save for the occasional mob. They visit the first shrine, and nobody buys watermelon, thinking that whatever couple pieces of meat, chicken or fish they brought along would suffice. They didn't know the pilgrimage would take between an hour and a half and two hours.

I should also note right now that the server allowed players to set up three points to teleport to. So once we all gathered around the first shrine I pointed the lot of them in the right direction and vanished, popping back up at the second shrine. I waited for the group of them, listening intently to the nearby moans and groans of mobs in the tunnel. One of the pilgrims asked "Why don't you use any torches? It's dark in here," to which everyone seemed to respond with a simultaneous "FUCK!" It turned out that a creeper shimmied around one of the corners I set up and hurt a good portion of the party. I'm going to start referring to them as "party" and "adventurers", because the more I talk about this, the more I realize I wasn't a monk or prophet, but more of a mean DM or villain in a tabletop game.

Anyhow, the party made it to the second shrine. They waited while I ran back and repaired the path, then we continued. The group got a laugh when they left the tunnel and saw Queen Bitch's mansion was totally buried. Then they got mad as they made the long hike to the next shrine.

Statements made during the long hike were generally along the lines of "Wow, you've done a lot of work", "I'm getting hungry", and "How fucking long is this thing?" But they got to the Shrine of Patience without a death. We kept going along the path, somewhat entertained by the fact that there were dozens of sheep and pigs in the immediate area for no particular reason.

So now the party goes and visits the Shrine of Kindness, suspended above the pit. If you recall the rules I made, the party has to touch the shrine. There was only a one block space to drop through, so they did it handily. I told them to continue and dropped down the pit. A couple of them got curious when I didn't die, and decided to follow suit. They didn't realize I had teleported to the next shrine, so when the party got split up, they began to argue about which was the right path. Of course, being me, I said they both were. Side note, I was tempted to make the path lead back to the start of the path to the Shrine of Patience instead of the shrine itself, but decided against it in a rare moment of undwarvenism.

So I stood, bedecked in Golden armor at the top of the Stairway to Heaven as a blizzard kicked up around me. The first batch of party members finally arrived at the base of the steps (the second group was a little miffed but not too far behind, Kindness was only a couple minutes from Patience). There were compliments on the beauty of the staircase until two of the adventures began swearing profusely. They hadn't been watching where they were going and slipped right through the cracks. I laughed as suddenly every adventurer was crouched in a line, slowly jumping their way up the stairs.

Oh, I should also note that PVP was highly frowned upon on the server after a feuding incident, so nobody was really expecting things to be too dangerous, even after my final rule/warning. Suddenly everyone was more serious about the pilgrimage.

Shrines Visited: 5
Deaths: 3

With the heavy snow cutting down on visibility (it really was beautiful when there was light snow falling, and I do wish I had a screenshot), we moved along quickly. The blizzard did manage to be useful in hiding exactly how twisted Snake Way was though, and set a nice mood. It was hilarious to watch everyone stay crouched to keep from accidentally falling of the edge. At this point, the general feel of the chat was "This looks awesome and I can't wait to see the rest, but fuck you and everything you love, because some of us didn't listen to your rules and can't afford to replace some of the stuff we brought along." So of course I was laughing harder at each backhanded compliment that flew my way.

Going through the dark mountains resulted in encounters with more mobs and another explosion that took out an adventurer, as well as one of them leaving due to hunger. If only she'd waited a little longer, or borrowed an apple from someone.

Shrines Visited: 5
Deaths: 4
Surrenders: 1

Needless to say, she was really mad when the rest of the party told her about the farms they found at the Shrine of Diligence. I believe at that point the girl who left said I was the "worst person to ever put two blocks together". I followed the remaining adventurers as they continued down the train and eventually came across my Magma Room.

With a "Fuck that", the guy who fell into the chasm teleported back home. The remaining half-dozen were wondering what troubles they'd face, and didn't know how much longer they'd have to endure the dangers of my devices. As they prepared to jump across, I teleported to my second location, right across the room. Needless to say, the party was mad that I wouldn't be taking any risk. But they continued anyway, one at a time going through the Magma Room. The first went across successfully, as did the second, but the third made an error in his jumping judgement and fell over his head into magma. The others decided that crossing the same way the first two did was a smart idea.

Shrines Visited: 6
Deaths: 5
Surrenders: 2

So there they were, congratulating one another as they thought they were approaching the final shrine in this massive room. But as they approached the Diamond block, a keen eye noticed the Portal.

"You guys ready to continue?" I asked. The general consensus was "Yes but I want to murder you so hard."

So we go through the portal and the first guy through runs forward and right off of the cliff into the magma sea.

Shrines Visited: 7
Deaths: 6
Surrenders: 2
Sets of Diamond Armor Lost: 1

Everyone else made sure to look around before running off the edge of the cliff.

"See you at the next shrine!" I said before teleporting to the end of the pitfall hallway. A couple minutes later the party rounded the corner and made their way towards me. The pointman decided sprinting would be a great idea, so one minute he was there, and the next he vanished, seemingly swallowed by the Nether itself. Once again I laughed as the final three crouch-walked their way to me. At this point everyone else was cursing me out in the best ways possible, their tones of anger mixed with admiration. I like to imagine that at this time the four of us locked arms and skipped our way to the Shrine of Greed, where the guy bedecked in in the other set of diamond went nuts at the number of chests that lined the border of the room. So without a thought he sprinted into the shrine and jumped across. It wasn't until he checked the first chest that he realized the error of his ways.

"Fuck this", he said as he teleported away.

So with that the final survivors and I had a good laugh and the Pilgrimage ended. I wish I could have continued the project and turned it into the ultimate challenge on the server. Then made my way to make more dungeons.

Final Count!

Shrines Visited: 9
Deaths: 7
Surrenders: 3
Sets of Diamond Armor Lost: 1

Once I get myself a desktop I'll be playing all sorts of shit again, so you guys should expect this kind of stuff on any MC servers we have.

[The13thRonin]

If I left the story there, would that count as Minecraft trolling?

But I won't because I'm a neat guy.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I had an even dozen people interested in what in the hell I was doing. With the guy who ran the server about to get banned from the forum (for being a dick to everyone but me for some reason), we knew he'd be taking the server down as well, so I decided to lead a premature pilgrimage, just so it'd be appreciated. So as cool guy and I are making sure everyone's gathering at the start of the trail we see a notice for one of the players dying (I don't remember if Minecraft is specific with deaths or was back then), followed immediately by "FUCK YOU KYLE!" (not shy about my name, by the way. If the internet wants to figure it out then I couldn't stop them anyway) It turned out he was curious about the inside of the pyramid and was actually smart enough to realize the shrine marked the entrance to my home. But he didn't realize the ladder stopped short, and wound up plummeting to his death deep within the chasm.

Shrines Visited: 0
Deaths: 1

So he got back with us. I had a few ground rules for the pilgrims as well:

• One set of armor of your choice
• No blocks of any kind
• Any weapons
• Any food you'd like to bring
• Don't bring what you can't replace
• You must touch the shrine to count as visiting it

So we set off (in the dark), most people in Iron Armor, two in Diamond, and myself the only one decked out in Gold (I wanted to stand out). Since the path was pretty direct, I took the rear and told the pilgrims to stick close and follow the path. We make our way to the first shrine (that I had to repair real quick) without much incident save for the occasional mob. They visit the first shrine, and nobody buys watermelon, thinking that whatever couple pieces of meat, chicken or fish they brought along would suffice. They didn't know the pilgrimage would take between an hour and a half and two hours.

I should also note right now that the server allowed players to set up three points to teleport to. So once we all gathered around the first shrine I pointed the lot of them in the right direction and vanished, popping back up at the second shrine. I waited for the group of them, listening intently to the nearby moans and groans of mobs in the tunnel. One of the pilgrims asked "Why don't you use any torches? It's dark in here," to which everyone seemed to respond with a simultaneous "FUCK!" It turned out that a creeper shimmied around one of the corners I set up and hurt a good portion of the party. I'm going to start referring to them as "party" and "adventurers", because the more I talk about this, the more I realize I wasn't a monk or prophet, but more of a mean DM or villain in a tabletop game.

Anyhow, the party made it to the second shrine. They waited while I ran back and repaired the path, then we continued. The group got a laugh when they left the tunnel and saw Queen Bitch's mansion was totally buried. Then they got mad as they made the long hike to the next shrine.

Statements made during the long hike were generally along the lines of "Wow, you've done a lot of work", "I'm getting hungry", and "How fucking long is this thing?" But they got to the Shrine of Patience without a death. We kept going along the path, somewhat entertained by the fact that there were dozens of sheep and pigs in the immediate area for no particular reason.

So now the party goes and visits the Shrine of Kindness, suspended above the pit. If you recall the rules I made, the party has to touch the shrine. There was only a one block space to drop through, so they did it handily. I told them to continue and dropped down the pit. A couple of them got curious when I didn't die, and decided to follow suit. They didn't realize I had teleported to the next shrine, so when the party got split up, they began to argue about which was the right path. Of course, being me, I said they both were. Side note, I was tempted to make the path lead back to the start of the path to the Shrine of Patience instead of the shrine itself, but decided against it in a rare moment of undwarvenism.

So I stood, bedecked in Golden armor at the top of the Stairway to Heaven as a blizzard kicked up around me. The first batch of party members finally arrived at the base of the steps (the second group was a little miffed but not too far behind, Kindness was only a couple minutes from Patience). There were compliments on the beauty of the staircase until two of the adventures began swearing profusely. They hadn't been watching where they were going and slipped right through the cracks. I laughed as suddenly every adventurer was crouched in a line, slowly jumping their way up the stairs.

Oh, I should also note that PVP was highly frowned upon on the server after a feuding incident, so nobody was really expecting things to be too dangerous, even after my final rule/warning. Suddenly everyone was more serious about the pilgrimage.

Shrines Visited: 5
Deaths: 3

With the heavy snow cutting down on visibility (it really was beautiful when there was light snow falling, and I do wish I had a screenshot), we moved along quickly. The blizzard did manage to be useful in hiding exactly how twisted Snake Way was though, and set a nice mood. It was hilarious to watch everyone stay crouched to keep from accidentally falling of the edge. At this point, the general feel of the chat was "This looks awesome and I can't wait to see the rest, but fuck you and everything you love, because some of us didn't listen to your rules and can't afford to replace some of the stuff we brought along." So of course I was laughing harder at each backhanded compliment that flew my way.

Going through the dark mountains resulted in encounters with more mobs and another explosion that took out an adventurer, as well as one of them leaving due to hunger. If only she'd waited a little longer, or borrowed an apple from someone.

Shrines Visited: 5
Deaths: 4
Surrenders: 1

Needless to say, she was really mad when the rest of the party told her about the farms they found at the Shrine of Diligence. I believe at that point the girl who left said I was the "worst person to ever put two blocks together". I followed the remaining adventurers as they continued down the train and eventually came across my Magma Room.

With a "Fuck that", the guy who fell into the chasm teleported back home. The remaining half-dozen were wondering what troubles they'd face, and didn't know how much longer they'd have to endure the dangers of my devices. As they prepared to jump across, I teleported to my second location, right across the room. Needless to say, the party was mad that I wouldn't be taking any risk. But they continued anyway, one at a time going through the Magma Room. The first went across successfully, as did the second, but the third made an error in his jumping judgement and fell over his head into magma. The others decided that crossing the same way the first two did was a smart idea.

Shrines Visited: 6
Deaths: 5
Surrenders: 2

So there they were, congratulating one another as they thought they were approaching the final shrine in this massive room. But as they approached the Diamond block, a keen eye noticed the Portal.

"You guys ready to continue?" I asked. The general consensus was "Yes but I want to murder you so hard."

So we go through the portal and the first guy through runs forward and right off of the cliff into the magma sea.

Shrines Visited: 7
Deaths: 6
Surrenders: 2
Sets of Diamond Armor Lost: 1

Everyone else made sure to look around before running off the edge of the cliff.

"See you at the next shrine!" I said before teleporting to the end of the pitfall hallway. A couple minutes later the party rounded the corner and made their way towards me. The pointman decided sprinting would be a great idea, so one minute he was there, and the next he vanished, seemingly swallowed by the Nether itself. Once again I laughed as the final three crouch-walked their way to me. At this point everyone else was cursing me out in the best ways possible, their tones of anger mixed with admiration. I like to imagine that at this time the four of us locked arms and skipped our way to the Shrine of Greed, where the guy bedecked in in the other set of diamond went nuts at the number of chests that lined the border of the room. So without a thought he sprinted into the shrine and jumped across. It wasn't until he checked the first chest that he realized the error of his ways.

"Fuck this", he said as he teleported away.

So with that the final survivors and I had a good laugh and the Pilgrimage ended. I wish I could have continued the project and turned it into the ultimate challenge on the server. Then made my way to make more dungeons.

Final Count!

Shrines Visited: 9
Deaths: 7
Surrenders: 3
Sets of Diamond Armor Lost: 1

Once I get myself a desktop I'll be playing all sorts of shit again, so you guys should expect this kind of stuff on any MC servers we have.

Epic.

[Mr Space Cat]

Now that was a quality story.

Brilliant!

[The13thRonin]

If you were truly evil you would have made the shrine of patience the last of the virtuous shrines and made it somehow lead all the way back to the first shrine.

[hops]

If you were truly evil you would have made the shrine of patience the last of the virtuous shrines and made it somehow lead all the way back to the first shrine.

Mr. Bones' Wild Pilgrimage?

[Man of Paper]

I know, I know. I missed some great opportunities with Patience. I've since learned from my mistakes. No more shortcuts for this dungeon boss!

[Itnetlolor]

I usually tend to miss out on awesome stuff like that, one time or another. Intended trolling or not, I still wouldn't mind the pilgrimage. Sounds like it would be a fun trip. Not the destination that matters, but the adventure.

[OREOSOME]

I normally hate griefers, but there is just a single one that deserves to be engulfed in Chaos.

The server? YAMS(Yet Another Minecraft Server). The place is eerie in how orderly everything is. One friend of mine broke a piece of glass to get in to a place quickly, and was immediately questioned by a moderator. The server is just too Utopian. It deserves to burn.

So, I once tried to gather up lots of TNT, and attempted to make a massive Cannon to bombard a city. The preparation took a few days. So, satisfied at my work, I began the attack. An entire stack of TNT blocks were launched in varied distances, to cause as much widespread chaos. However, a minute after the launch, the moderators noticed it was me who did it, and banned me, before rolling back he server to 9 minutes previously. If only it was a minute later, for the damage would have been too late to remove.

[Scoops Novel]

I suggest recreating kerbal space program with other players as unknowing kerbals, somehow.